Before she died in May, Marilyn French, whose The Women's Room (1977) sold 20 million copies and helped fuel the secondwave feminist movement, left a final novel, The Love Children (Feminist Press), about the daughters of that legacy. It's out now, along with Penguin's new edition of her landmark work, which has forewords by Dorothy Allison and Linsey Abrams.

Ivy Pochoda's beguiling debut novel, The Art of Disappearing (St. Martin's), is a terrific page-turner about a stage magician and a traveling textile designer who meet in Vegas and marry two days later, and all the mystery and mayhem that ensues.

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